Printers' devices in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

• Preface
• VII

• Acknowledgements
• X

• Illustrations
• XI

• Abbreviations
• XVII

• Books Cited
• XVII

• Libraries and Museums
• XVIII

• Introduction: Existing Research
• XX

• 1
• Source Base
• XXIII

• 2
• Typology, Terminology, and Functions of Woodcuts
• XXIV

• 3
• Research Subject, Objectives, and Methodology
• XXXIV

• 4
• Geographic Scope
• XXXVI

• 5
• Chronological Scope
• XXXVII

• 6
• Structure of the Work
• XXXIX

• I
• Heraldic Traditions
• 1

• 1
• The First Polish Device: a Model of Heraldic Exposition
• 2

• 2
• The Municipal Coat of Arms and the Merchant's Mark as Used by Printers
• 9

• 2.1
• SzwajpoltFiol
• 9

• 2.2
• The Sixteenth Century and Beyond
• 13

• 3
• Municipal Heraldry and State Symbols
• 15

• 3.1
• Heraldic Groups
• 15

• 3.2
• Patron Saints
• 20

• 4
• Devices Featuring Merchants' Marks
• 24

• 4.1
• Jan Halter
• 24

• 4.2
• Florian Ungler
• 31

• 4.3
• Merchants'Marks in Title Borders
• 33

• 4.4
• Merchants'Marks and Canting Devices
• 43

• 4.5
• Szarfenberg (Scharffenberg), a.k.a. Ostrogdrski
• 45

• 4.6
• Maciej Wirzbi&ecedil;ta and Mateusz Siebeneicher
• 49

• 5
• Coats of Arms in the Function of Printers' Devices
• 60

• 5.1
• The Szarfenbergers
• 60

• 5.2
• Cyprian Bazylik of Sieradz
• 66

• 6
• Aleksander Aujezdecki (Augezdecky)
• 70

• 2
• Sources from Antiquity and the Emblematic Filter
• 72

• 1
• Terminus
• 73

• 2
• Alciato and the Emblematic Taste of the Age
• 89

• 3
• In Praise of Silence
• 93

• 4
• Concord
• 99

• 5
• The Device of the Zamosc Academy Printing House
• 105

• 6
• Ancient Tale and Emblematic Structure
• 115

• 7
• Printer's Device or Not?
• 120

• 3
• Within the Christian Community
• 123

• 1
• Lutheran Printers in Königsberg
• 123

• 2
• Maciej Wirzbi&ecedil;ta
• 136

• 3
• Stanislaw Murmelius
• 145

• 4
• The Polish Brethren
• 151

• 5
• The Sign of the Pelican
• 159

• 6
• IHS in Vilnius: Jesuit Symbol or Printer's Device?
• 166

• 4
• Devices Used by the Drukarnia Lazarzowa
• 168

• 1
• Lazarz Andrysowic - Wietor's Successor
• 168

• 2
• Jan Januszowski (Lazarzowic)
• 172

• 2.1
• At the Helm of Drukarnia Lazarzowa (Officina Lazari)
• 172

• 2.2
• The Devices: Januszowski's Early Years
• 175

• 2.3
• The Devices: the Obelisk (Astronomy, Prisca Theologia, and the Recycling of an Erudite Tradition)
• 181

• 5
• Books in Jewish Languages
• 198

• 1
• The Halicz Brothers and the Prostitz family
• 199

• 2
• Lublin
• 206

• 6
• Where, When, How Often: the Printer's Device within the Structure of the Book
• 211

• Conclusions
• 223

• Bibliography
• 227

• Index
• 256